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Axiom Space Inc., a Houston, Texas-based commercial space company, was awarded a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement by NASA's Johnson Space Center (civilian agency) on January 29, 2026, for private astronaut missions to the International Space Station. The contract has a ceiling value of $3 million with an ultimate completion date of January 29, 2031, and contains no small business set-aside. Under this BOA, Axiom Space will provide end-to-end private astronaut mission services, including crew transportation, astronaut training, and orbital operations support for commercial crews conducting research and activities aboard the ISS. The contract represents NASA's continued reliance on commercial partners to execute its human spaceflight objectives and enable private sector participation in space exploration activities.

The originating solicitation was a Special Notice issued by NASA Headquarters in August 2025 seeking mission partnerships to support the continued operations of three Earth science instruments—the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, and Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III—hosted on the ISS through fiscal year 2030. While the published solicitation focused on Earth science mission operations and data management partnerships, the subsequent BOA award to Axiom Space reflects NASA's procurement of the underlying transportation and logistics infrastructure necessary to sustain these scientific missions through commercial crew access to the station. This contract enables Axiom Space to execute multiple private astronaut missions (identified as Private Astronaut Missions 5 and subsequent missions) that facilitate NASA's broader Earth science objectives and commercial space station utilization strategy.